Rivka Swenson

Essential Scots and the Idea of Unionism in Anglo-Scottish Literature, 1603-1832

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Produktbeschreibung

Essential Scots scrutinizes diverse texts from the Union of Crowns and James VI/I's Edinburgh-London emigration to the aftermath of George IV's London-Edinburgh-London journey more than two centuries later, exposing how the "essential" Scot, allegedly possessed of a uniquely durable, influential identity, shaped the literary-cultural narrative imagination from 1603-1832, with implications for the twenty-first century. The essential Scot's supposed aptitude for personal resistance and recovery were marshaled by Scottish and English writers to formally challenge, accommodate, generate, revise, and mediate between the universalizing and individualizing trajectories of British unionism still negotiated today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bucknell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9781611486780
• ISBN-10: 1611486785
• Artikelnr.: 43752207

Autorenporträt

By Rivka Swenson

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Introduction
Part I: Essential Scottishness and the Form of Original Anglo-Scottish
Discontent One: Writing Anglo-Scottish Unionism and its Discontents in 1603
and 1707: Francis Bacon, Daniel Defoe, and English Anxieties of Narration
Two: Writing Reunion, Rewriting Union for the Atomic Scot: Tobias
Smollett's Traveling Types after the '45 and Seven Years War Three: Writing
Revolution as Essential Recovery: Samuel Johnson's Return to Scotland after
Ossian Part II: Unionism and the Challenge of the Individual in Early
Nineteenth-Century Scottish Writing Four: Individual Concerns, the
Mock-Gothic, and Marriage Trouble: Anglo-Scottish Self-Difference in Susan
Ferrier's Laboratory Five: Describing the Subnational Hinge in 1822: Robert
Mudie and the Aesthetic Politics of the Synthetic British Text Coda: Walter
Scott and the Legacy of Chosen Scottishness Bibliography Index About the
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